The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at Manchester—Mr. J. Chapman, M.P., the chairman, presided. The report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN congratulated the shareholders union the favourable statement of accounts. Although, he said, the company had lost an enor mous amount of traffic on the Ashton, Staleybridge, and Hadfield portion of the line, as well as from other hitherto paying districts, owing to the de pressed state of the cotton trade, the deficiency had been made up by the vitality of other portions, from the good trade of Sheffield and from the good har vest of last autumn. In spite of this a dividend equal to any the shareholders had previously re ceived was offered. And not only was there a di vidend of 11 per cent., but a respectable balance would be carried over to the next half-year. The state of Europe was at present very precarious; and if unfortunately war broke out there as well as in America, the prospects of all railway companies, theirs among the number, would be jeopardised. 'raking, ',however, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway as it was, there was a very good prospect ; it was not dependent upon foreign lines; it was not dependent upon the traffic which was interrupted by the American war; and, losing not only the coal which ought to be carried to work the factory steam engines, but the cotton to be manufactured by them, and the calicoes and other ti:milar products, it was still prosperous. There were some very extensive works on the railway, some finished, others in progress, and some in contem plation, which would bring a large increase of traffic with which there could be no competition. As some of these works were joint-stock concerns, the directors would behave liberally to the share• holders, so as to induce them not only to extend their trade, but also to give every facility, with a view to mutual benefit. The increase of the corn pany's;returns over the corresponding period of last year was £31,321, including the South Yorkshire traffic. Owing to the stoppage of several collieries in the South Yorkshire district the company had suffered from the agreement with the South York shire; but during the last half-year, notwithstand ing the bad times, there was no loss whatever upon that lease. A gratifying item also was the large increase of traffic as compared with the very small increase of cost in working the traffic. The work ing of the line would have appeared far more fa vourable had not more than £lO,OOO been taken from the suspense account and charged against re venue. Of course if this had not been done the re ceipts divisible among the proprietors would have been so much larger. A sub-committee had re ported on the suspense account, and had recom mended the board to divide it equally over eight half-years, instead of carrying them forward un equally over:a greater number. The directors had spent £20,000 in finding fresh stock for the canals, which, having no capital, were supported from re venue. The rather large amount spent upon capital was for works sanctioned for lines in Cheshire, and other improvements. In retiring from the chair manship, owing to ill-health, after 25 years' service, he could not but acknowledge the great kindness with which he had always been received. Mr. FENTON, deputy-chairman of the company, in seconding the motion, said he was glad to observe that, notwithstanding the increased traffic of the past half-year, it had been accomplished at so little extra cost. The increase in the locomotive depart ment was only £l,lOO, while that of permanent way was also V,lOO, and all the extra expense, including . general charges, was only about £4,000. (Hear, hear.) A shareholder had called at tention at a past meeting to the position of their canal property. The directors quite agreed with the remarks of that gentleman, and having previously directed attention to the management of the canals,] they had effected a saving in the half-year of more than £2,000, and might look for ward to an annual saving of about £5,000. (Applause.) D:. CowAN. in asking a number of questions ou various points, expressed his opinion that other com panies had suffered much from making extensions, from leases of other lines, and from docks and sea going vessels, and said that he hoped this company, now they were in an improved position, would ab stain from a like course, and pursue a policy of letting well alone. Mr. FILDER congratulated the shareholders upon the improved position of the company. Mr. ROBERTS expressed himself adverse to this company's connexion with the South Yorkshire line; and hoped they would in future avoid the adoption of landowners' schemes for new lines. Mr. E. W. WATKIN said in reply that the board were unanimous in their resolve to give no guaran tee to these branch lines, nor would they commit themselves to any outlay for extensions without bringing the matter specifically before the share holders, and obtaining their consent. (Hear.) But as to pledging themselves that under no circumstances would they recommend the shareholders to give a guarantee, or sanction a new outlay, that would be at once to part with their interests, and their position in the district, and would invite that attack, which it was the directors' duty, as far as they could, to re pel. (Hear.) With regard to the Cheshire lines, two detached portions of the whole measured only 111 miles in length, and it was not possible for them to pay without connexion with the remainder. But these were lines in which their friends of the Great Northern were equal partners and whatever the profit or loss they would join, if the report were passed, in carrying out and completing these undertakings. The first object was to get an independent and final fooling in Liverpool; second, to get by means of these Cheshire lines a proper footing for their traffic at Birken head; and thirdly, to . be able to get a supply of Cheshire salt for the development of their ports of Grimsby and New Holland, which at present they were obliged to bring by way of Crewe, and by this detour the amount of traffic was reduced to the lowest possible amount. Until they get access to those seats of traffic it was quite impossible that the policy they had in view could be practically realised. (Hear.) It was much to be deplored that at a time when railway property was beginning to some ex tent to recover itself 350 railway bills for new pro jects, many of which ought never to be made, be cause they would never pay—(hear)—were thrown upon the floor of Parliament, compelling them, in spite of everything they could do, to appear in that most expensive of all expensive courts with lawyers and engineers to protect their rights and property wherever they might be attacked. In 1856 their cost for fuel on the average of the year was 3d. per mile; he was happy to say that in 1863, for the December half-year, the cost was reduced to 1.37 d. He thought that this economy reflected credit upon the locomotive superintendent. (Hear.) It was most satisfactory to have carried 156,000 more tons of goods and 250,000 more passengers at an extra expenditure for fuel of only £4O. (Applause.) In reference to Mr. Chapman's resignation, Mr. Wat kins bore witness to his undeviating honour, his constant industry, and the good feeling and high principle that had distinguished his chairmanship. He was satisfied that Mr. Chapman would retire from the chair and take his seat at the board with the unanimous thanks and good wishes of the meet ing. (LePplause.) Their policy as a railway company must be the same as their individual policy —to mind their own businces—(hear)—get as much 4reffic as they could, and to obtain it at the smallest possible expense, and to go into no extension or new undertaking into which they were not posi tively driven ; at the same time they must hold their own position. Their position as regarded surrounding companies was one of considerable eterege, for the amount of their exchange traffic showed their line to bo & necessity. Independent of their large partnership treffic with the Lanca shire and Yorkshire and London and North Western companies, the total cost of which was divided, their independent traffic with the former company emo nnted to no less than £ 33,000 per annum, and w ith the latter company to £ 61 ,000 per annum ; with the Midland it was £65,000; an d t h e i r total exc h an ge traffic with their ally, the Great Northern Company, was no less than £270,000. (Neer, hear.) Some of these results were to be attributed to their former policy of opening up railway routes for the development of the largest amount of traffic, which led to an endeavour to accommodate the public in the most efficient and economical manner, which opposed all those destructive agreements which at tempted to compel traffic to flow in particular chan nels, and in fact opened up a railway system of intercommunication which he believed would ulti mately give them decent dividends: He took en couragement from their past experience. A few years ago their ordinary stock was at 17, whereas now it was 51; their other stock was then equally low, and nobody would lend them a shilling. They had survived all that ; they had greatly improved the concern, and he believed they could improve it still further. (Applause.) The motion of the chairman was then carried unanimously. Motions declaring a dividend of 11 per cent. per annum for the half-year on the ordinary stock (in addition to preference and other dividends), for the re-election of the retiring directors, and for the re-appointment of Mr. S. P. Robinson as auditor, were carried without dissent. Mr. FILDES moved, " That the directors be in structed to charge to capital part of the amount of £59,081 now standing to the debit of the suspense account—namely, to the extent of £46,500, being a like amount to that which has already in past years been debited improperly to revenue, and that the remainder be liquidated out of revenue in equal pro portions over four years." The motion was seconded, and carried with only two dissentients. The business concluded with a vote of thanks to Mr. Chapman (on his retirement from the chair) for his past services to the company, and to the Board generally, At a meeting of the Board of directors of the com pany held previously to the general meeting, Mr. E. W. Watkin was elected chairman of the com pany. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the promoters of the following railway bills before the examiners were declared to have complied with the standing orders of Parliament : LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.—For amalga mation with the Devon, Bideford Extension, and Southampton and Netley Railway Companies ; for extension of time for completing Andover and Red bridge Railway; and for new lines at Leatherhead and Battersea. WEST NORFOLK . —For a railway from the Lynn and Hunstanton at Heacham to the Great Eastern at Wells—capital, £75,000; loan, £25,000. LANCASHIRE UNION.—For railways in the county of Lancaster, between the towns of Blackburn, Chorley, Wigan, Parr, and St. Helen's—capital, £500,000; loan, £166,000. SHREWSBURY AND WEL CHPO OL.— For lease either to the London and North Western or Great Western Railway Companies. DUBLIN TRUNK (CONNECTING).--FOr a connect ing system of railways in Dablin. MARKET HARBOROUGH AND EAST NORTON.—Fer a railway from the Rugby and Stamford line of the London and North-Western to East Norton in Lei cestershire—capital, £60,000 ; loan, £20,000. BRECON AND MERTHYR TYDFIL (No. 2)..—For extensions from the Rumney Railway to Cardiff— capital, £lBO,OOO ; loan, £60,000. GARSTANG AND KNOT-END. - For railway from the Lancaster and Preston Junction, Garstang sta tion, to Knot-end, Lancaster—capital, £6,000; loan, £20,000. CARNARVON AND LLANBERIS (NO. 4—For a railway from Carnarvon to Llanberis—capital, £74,000 ; loan, £24,000. The Bill for the Carnarvon and 12anberis (No. 2), a competing line, by an extension from the Carnar vonshire Railway at Llanbeblig to Llanberis, and to a junction with the Nanttle railway—capital, £110,000; loan, £36,ooo—has also been declared to have complied with the standing orders. KNUTSFORD AND WARRINGTON.—For a railway between those places--capital, £130,000 ; loan, £43,300. ithymney (Extensions) and Bristol Port Eaten, sions. Holston and Penryn—capital, £120,000; loan, £40,000. Dublin, Wexford, and Wicklow (devia tions and extensions) ; Lancaster Canal Transfer, and Sheffield, Chesterfield, and Staffordshire. The Bill for the Petersham Railway was with• drawn. Cotton Supply Association, At the usual weekly meeting of the Executive Committee, held on Tuesday, a letter was read from Jamaica, stating that the writer is devoting himself to the cultivation of cotton on the north side of the island; and having great influence with the natives he is exerting it to induce them to become growers of cotton as well as himself, whilst he pays special attention to the due preparation of what is produced for the market. The negroes, though not adverse, and even desirous that cotton should succeed, do not believe that it will, neither do 99 out of every 100 of the other inhabitants; but encouraged b; the trials already made, and by his own deliberate conviction, he is boldly prosecuting the work, and expects that his success will stimulate others to ex ertion. A letter was received stating that the cul tivation of cotton is extending in Barbary, and that the natives are entering into it with great earnest- ness. A great mistake has been made in many instances in growing the various sorts of cotton promiscuously ; this has been especially the case in Algeria, and the cotton thus produced has been found unsaleable if not useless. The writer men tions a beautiful track of country near Tangier, containing upwards of 20,000 acres, abundantly watered by springs, and totally uncultivated, which might be made available for the growth of cotton. A despatch was read, forwarded by the Colonial-office, from the Governor of Queensland, on the introduction of Chinese immigrants into that colony to grow cotton, and stating that there is no law in force, as in some of the colonies in Australia, to impede the immigration, at their own expense, or at the expense of private employers, of the inhabitants of China or of any other country ; but that emigration from Europe only can be assisted at the public expense, according to the regulations sanctioned by the Queensland Parliament. On the question from what source can a permanent supply of the raw material suitable for our manufactures, and capable of competing with the product of the Southern States of America, be obtained, the despatch repeats what his excellency had previously stated, viz. "That the whole question of the supply of Asiatic labour really affects the mother country far more than the colony. The Government and legislature of Queensland have done all in their power, by offering free grants of land, premiums on the exportation of cotton, and other facilities and en couragements, to assist the parent state in the pre sent crisis in the supply of the raw material of her staple manufacture. Mr. Be zley and other practical men are of opinion that sufficient cotton for the de mands of the English trade might be grown in Queensland alone with the aid of Asiatic labour, which they deem indispensable. But if cotton. is to be grown on an extensive scale it must be by English capitalists, the capital of the colonists being already for the most part absorbed in growing wool. It fol lows that any restrictions, or difficulties and delays equivalent to restrictions, imposed on the introduc tion of Asiatic labour, whether H i ndoo or Chinese, will fall far more heavily on the capitalists and manufacturers in England than on the colonists in Queensland." A letter was received from Smyrna from the ViceTresident of the Cotton Commission of Anatolia, stating that the attention of the Im perial government has been specially directed to the importance of promoting the use of American seed, and that the Minister of Commerce is now practi cally engaged with the subject. The exotic seed, distributed and planted last year, was so late that it came up just in time for the locusts, and fell a prey to them. Some hesitation as to using exotic seed has consequently been felt by the native cultivators, which will be removed by a goad harvest and the successful results in other districts. Notwithstand ing all difficulties and discouragements cotton grow ing has taken a firm hold, ginning establishments have sprung up in all the chief districts, and the Imperial government has just sent down 25 of Platt's gins for distribution in the country districts around THE SUN ; LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1864. Smyna. A strong and heartfelt desire is continually manifested by the government to encourage the growth of cotton in every practicable way. Grants of seed were made for Pernambuco, where it is greatly in demand, and where it is said every pound will be immediately planted, for Shanghae and other places. tion of a city and country life. Among all classes of men in the city, at 20 and upwards, themean age at death is scarcly 52 years, whereas in all England it is nearly 56. Among women at 20 and upwards the mean age at death in the city is little less than 50, though in the rest of England it is a little more. It would appear from this that there is a general loss of about four years in the lifetime of every man in the city, but the different classes show remarkable variations in this respect. The merchant and shopkeeper, for instance, says Dr. Letheby, die at the mean age of 57, the clerk at 54; the tailor, shoemaker, labourer, carpenter, and porter at from 51 to 52 ; the cabman, ostler, and carman at 50 ; the costermonger and hawker at 49, and the printer at 45. The wives in these classes in every instance have a much longer duration of life than their husbands, for it commonly reaches to about 56 years, and therefore it is presumed that the circumstances which shorten existence in the city are not so much in the homes of the people as in their occupations and habits. With respect to the causes of death daring the year, of every 1,000 deaths, among all classes in the city, there were 164 from pneumonia and bronchitis, 133 from phthisis, 76 from tabes and scrofula, 25 from hydrocephalus, 55 from convulsions and teething, 27 from diarrhoea, 71 from scarlet fever, 39 from continued fever, 15 from smallpox, 24 from measles, 9 from erysipelas, 50 from whooping cough, croup, and diphtheria, 62 from violence, privation, and poison, and 270 from causes of a chronic nature. Altogether, there were 214 deaths in every 1,000 from tubercular diseases, 164 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and 235 from diseases of a zymotic character. The average number for the last ten years are 212 from the first-named maladies, 164 from the second, and 236 from the third. In all Eng land the proportions are 160, 149, and 194 respectively. Each of these groups of diseases is thus seen to be more prevalent and fatal in the city than elsewhere. were five sovereigns in the drawer, which he claimed as his property. On searching him I found a key which fitted the box. I. subsequently found at the Waterloo Station, £5 13s 10d in money, as well as a watch and chain. I also found a letter received from Mr. Kennedy, secretary of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railway, 10, Liverpool-street, New Broad-street, London. It was dates Nov. 7, and stated, in answer to an application for an ap pointment on that railway made by the prisoner, that there was at that time no vacancy, but that his name should be entered upon the company's book. I also found the second letter in Mrs. Harris's handwriting, rhich has been read. I went to London, and at the Waterloo station found a box directed to Mrs. Wilson, &c. The key found upon the prisoner fitted the lock. In the box were £33 in gold., and also a slip of paper, on which the following was written : " Dearest,—l have taken £5 back for other opportunities. The rest is in the box, as Charley (meaning the prosecutor) is in a way, and it may be found out if any one should see I had so much money. Keep away from any of your friends. He has sent to Chapple-street (the residence of Mrs. Harris's grandfather) to day." Mr. Samuel Davis, superintendent of the Salisbury sta tion of the South-Western Railway, knew the prisoner's handwriting, and believed that on the scrap of paper found in the box at the Waterloo station was the prisoner's, but he could not swear positively to it. The Bench having heard Mr. Wilson for the prisoner, expressed their opinion that there was sufficient evidence to warrant them in sending the case for trial. Mrs. Betsy Harris was then called by Mr. Wilson, and said she had determined to leave her husband, not because he ill-used her, but because he made use of bad language She knew the prisoner in consequence of his visiting her husband's house. On Wednesday last she took some clothes and money to the railway station, and asked the prisoner to forward them to Waterloo station, and handed him £5 to pay expenses. But there was no engagement between her and the prisoner to meet each other in India, though she proposed to go out herself, and applied at a house in Birchin-lane to take part of a berth, but she was asked £6O, which she thought too much, Her letters to the prisoner were certainly very unguarded in expression. Cross-examined--I do not generally address gentlemen as" Here I am, my darling." (Laughter.) I made an ex ception in this case, because the prisoner was my tool. I gave Stainton £5 to purchase the box, and to meet any ex penses to which he might be subject in assisting me in escaping from my husband. I took £54 from my husband altogether. I intended to earn my own living in India. I have mentioned about going to India to the prisoner. He told me that he had applied for a situation in India. I did not make any arrangements for Stainton to see me in Lon don. I spoke to the prisoner about leaving Salisbury the first time on the Wednesday morning. I left on Wednes day at a ji:tarter-past two. The children I left in the care of their father. l the prisoner for trial at the The Bench then eommitteu ensuing spring assizes, to be held at Do ;tzest but they con sented to take bail, himself in £.lOO and two sut,:Yes of £lOO each. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. Yesterday a meeting of merchants and bankers in the city of London, who had recently formed themselves into a com mittee for raising a fund for the interior decoration of the great metropolitan Cathedral, was hold at the Mansion house, the Lord Mayor presiding. The committee is com posed of the Lord Mayor, Alderman Rose, M.P., Mr. Go schen, M,P., Alderman Dakin, Mr, Henry Sykes Thornton, the banker. Mr. William Gladstone, Mr. Butterworth, the eminent law publisher, and Mr. Francis Fuller. It sounds strangely at this day to say that the interior of he Cathedral has never been finished, but so it is, and until within the last five years no attempt upon anything like a grand scale has been made to adorn it after the manner con templated by Sir Christopher Wren. The present Dean and Chapter in particular have long felt the reproach im plied by the cold, unornamented, and unfinished interior of the edifice, and the more so as the result of ecclesiastical legislation of late years has been to leave them barely revenues sufficient to maintain the Cathedral in a decent state of repair, and none certainly to be applied to its adorn ment and completion. They have had, therefore, to appeal to the public, and since 1858, when a subscription was first set on foot for the purposes in question, about £lO,OOO has been raised, exclusive of £4.,100 given for special objects in the scheme of decoration, including C5O by the corpora tion of London, CO by the Goldsmiths' Company, £4OO by:the Drapers' Company, £2OO each by five of the City companies—namely, the Grocers, the Merchant Taylors, the Mercers, the Goldsmiths, and the Fishmongers; £l,OOO by Mr. Brown, of the firm of Longman and Co. ; and £lOO by Mr. Joshua W. Butterworth. About £6OO has also been received lately as the beginning of a guinea subscrip tion, to which a national character is now sought to be given on the presumption that the Cathedral of St. Paul is really a structure of national rather than of merely metropolitan interest. The proposal for completing and adorning the Cathedral consists, primarily, in filling 11 windows at the ends of the choir, nave, and transepts with painted glass of the highest quality, uniform in style, design, and execution ; in filling the spandrels of the dome and vaults and other suitable compartments, and ultimately the dome itself, with paint ings in mosaic, and the panels nearer the eye with a species of mosaic formed by inlaid marbles; and generally in gild ing and encrusting with coloured marbles such parts of the architecture as require it to complete the decorative frame work. It is also regarded as of the first importance to finish the great organ in the south transept, and to complete the stallwork of the choir and other works which have been left incomplete. To some extent these intentions have been already realised, the committee for the completion of the interior, with his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury at their head, having been enabled to lay out about £1,600 in various decorative works up to May last, in addition to the expenses connected with the opening and enlargement of the choir and with the special services. Of late the Dean and Chapter have taken upon himself the entire charge incident to the Sunday evening services as a permanent ar rangement. The details of the general scheme of adorn ment, with an approximate statement of the cost of each particular portion of the work, have already been submitted to the public, as approved by the Dean and Chapter and the General Committee. The total cost is said to be esti mated at from £60,000 to £70,000 of which only about one fifth has yet been obtained, Yesterday a letter, addressed to the Lord Mayor by Mr. Francis Faller, of Cornhill, was read to the meeting. In this letter Mr. Fuller said if 400 gentlemen could be found to charge themselves with the responsibility of collecting £lOO each, the sum of £40,00 could be, in his opinion, easily raised within the next two years, and he should be willing to be one of the 400 ; or, if preferred, he should be willing to be one of the 40, who should in that case charge themselves with the responsibility of collecting £l,OOO each within the same time. If the meeting should decide in fa vour of either of these plans they might rely on his hearty concurrence ; but he feared that unless some one man, or some body of men, would undertake the responsibility of raising the necessary amount of subscriptions within a given period, it would be long before the work was complete. Mr. W. C. Suomi, the hon. secretary to the fund, said he desired to correct what he knew to be an entirely errone ous notion out of doors—namely, that the Dean and Chap ter were rich enough to do all that was required for the Cathedral without extraneous aid. Their total inability to do so was explained by the Dean when the subject was first mooted in 1953, and afterwards by the Bishop of London, who stated in a letter " that there were no revenues at the disposal of the Dean and Chapter for the purpose in ques tion; that the Dean and Chapter were all endowed on the reduced and limited scale determined by recent Acts of Par liament ; and that there was no othor fund available but public cube cription for the adornment of the metropolitan national church." It was of the highest importance, Mr. Shone added, to the success of the object in view that this fact should. be generally known. The LORD MAYOR said the Dean and Chapter did no t even share in the increased value which their Cathedral property had acquired by the lapse of time. Of that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had the whale advantage. Mr. SHONE, in reply to the Lord May or, said the National Guinea Subscription which had recently been set on foot was not meant to shut out larger donations where these were offered, and he mentioned that Mr. Henry Hoare, the banker, had within the last few days given £lOO. Eventually, on the motion of Mr. WM. GLADSTONE, seconded by Mr. HENRY S. THORNTON, a resolution was passed, authorising in effect an appeal to the public for a guinea subscription, leaving it optional at the same time for subscribers to give more if they chose, such appeal to be ac companied by an assurance that the Dean and Chapter, as a body, have no funds available for purposes of education. On the motion of Mr. BUTTERWORTH, a cordial vote of thanks was-passed to the Lord Mayor, and the meeting separated. ,3? The Sanitary Condition of the City. According to a report of Dr. Letheby, just presented to the corporation of London, for the past year, there were 2,962 births, 2,870 deaths, and 1,701 marriages registered in the city of London within the year. Each of these numbers is below the average for the last 10 years, the births having declined from an annual proportion of 3,350 to 2,962, the deaths from 2,969 to 2,870, and the marriages from 1,702 to 1,701. The falling off has been chiefly in the central division of the city, where tho deaths have been reduced to the extent of 4 per cent of the annual proportion, and the births to nearly 15 per cent. It is remarkable, however, that the marriages in that division had been more numerous than usual. The mean birth rate for the whole city has been 2.6 per cent of the population, as compared with about 3.4 per cent of the population in the rest of London, and nearly 3k per cent in the whole of England. For the entire city there has been a general death rate of 25'1 in 1,000 of the population. The average death rate in the city during the last ten years is 24.3 per 1,000 of the inhabitants, as com pared with 24.4, the death rate of the chief towns and town districts of England—that of the whole of England being 22.2, and of the country districts 19'8. In the western union of the city, however, the death rate has been very high—viz , 29 . 3 in 1,000 of the population. Moreover, the mortality of males has been much greater than that of females, for the former have died at the rate of 27 per 1,000, and the latter at only 24 ; the averages throughout the country being 23 and 21'6. About 39 per cent of all the deaths were among children of less than five years of age. This, at first eight, does not appear a large infant mortality, for the proportion in the rest of London is about 44 per cent, and in England it is nearly 40; but when it is considered that the number of young children in the city is compara tively small, that the births are far below the average, and that there is a constant importation of adult life, it will be evident, says Dr. Letheby, that the infant mortality is ex cessive. In fact, if the death rate be estimated by the pro portion to the living, instead of to the dead, it will be seen that nearly 89 in 1,000 of all the children under five years of age have died in the year. In all England the proportion is only 63 in 1,000, and in France 69. There are places in the city where one child in every five dies before it is a year oid, and there are others where the mortality is only one in seven. Out of 1,000 deaths of children under 15 years of age 415 occur in the first year, 460 at from one to five years of age, and 125 at from five to fifteen years. Throughout all England the numbers are 467, 372, and 161 respectively; the most fatal period of childhood in the city is, therefore, between the ages of one and five. But after this, and for the next 30 years of life with men, and nearly 50 years with women, the circumstances of a city life are not generally unfavourable. At from 15 to 35 years of age tho death rate of men is only about 8 in 1,000, and of women 6.6 ; that of England being 81 and 9'l. From 35 to 65 years of ago the mortality of men is 29.6 in 1000, and of women 20.2, the English death rate at thoso periods being 18.1 for men, and 161 for women; and lastly, from 65 and upwards, the men in the city die at the rate of 129.3 in 1,000, and the women at the rate of 1161, the mortality in the whole of England being 93 7 and 85 . 8. It would seem, therefore, that the chief strain on a city life is during childhood, from one to five years, and in manhood after the meridian of life has been passed. It also appears that in the latter case the strain comes from occupation and from habits, rather than from any local circumstances about the homes of the people, for not only is the mortality greater among. men than women, but there is a largo difference in the death rate of different classes. The general indications are, that while the morta lity of the better classei is not much higher than the ave rage death rate for the whole country, that of the labour is excessive. Again, the results of the last ten years show that of every 1,000 deaths in the city 145 occur in workhouses, and about half of all the workhouse deaths are among five classes of persons—labourers, servants and charwomen, por ters and messengers, shoemakers, tailors, and need lewonien. The facts brought to light by examining in detail the mean ago at death of the different classes in the city are not with out interest, for, although they do not give very accurate information of the probable lifetime of a citizen, yet they in dicate sufficiently well the marked difference in the dura- The Confederate War Steamer Georgia. Yesterday, at the Liverpool Police-court, before Mr. Raffles, stipendiary magistrate, John Jones, principal part ner, in the firm of Jones and Co., of Capel-street, Liver pool, ship store dealers and chandlers, and John Wilding, clerk in the service of that firm, surrendered for examina tion on a charge of having committed a breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act by aiding in procuring a crew for the Confederate war steamer Georgia. It will be remem bered that a few days ago Mr. Highat, another partner in the firm of Jones and Co,, was committed for trial at the next Liverpool assizes on the same charge ; but that at that time Jones and Wilding did not appear to the sum monses. They subsequently agreed, however, to surrender, and were in court yesterday. Mr. Bateson, local agent for the Treasury, appeared for the prosecution, on behalf of her Majesty's Government; Mr. Bardswell defended. —. The introductory facts were briefly these :—Some of the crew of the vessel were engaged at Liverpool, and others at Greenock, on the representation that they were about to proceed on a voyage to the China seas in the British ship Japan ; but this vessel after reaching Brest was trans formed into the war steamer Georgia, bearing the Confe derate flag, and commanded by Captain Maury, who held a commisssion for that purpose from President Davis. The method by which the crew were shipped will be sufficiently understood from a very short synopsis of the evidence ad duced before Mr. Raffles. Mr. Bateson remarked in his opening statement that it would not be necessary to go into the case in any detail, as the main facts had already been fully before the Court. The chief witness was John Stanley, a cooper, who said he went to Jones and Co.'s office in consequence of a repre sentation made to him that they desired to engage coopers for the Japan He saw Mr. Highat on the subject, and that gentleman said he (Stanley) might go on board the Japan, and asked whether he could bring any more men for the same vessel. Witness afterwards went, in company with other men, to the Sailors' Home, where he saw Captain Hitchcock, the person who had charge of them in their pas sage to the Clyde, where the Japan was then lying. At the Sailors' Home they signed articles for a voyage to Singa pore and China. He received an advance note from Jones and Co. for £4 10s., one month's wages, but he experienced great difficulty in getting the note cashed, and returned to the office to tell them of this. They then paid him £2 ss. on account of the note, and Highat said he would pay the re mainder of the money to his (Stanley's) wife after he had gone to sea. On leaving Liverpool for the Clyde Highat came down to the vessel, called over the names of the men, and also their numbers. On their arrival at Greenock they joined the Japan, and Jones came on board with several other men, The Japan sailed out of the Clyde apparently on a trial trip, being a new vessel, but did not return to port. Soon after leaving the Clyde a small steamer met the Japan, having two guns on board, and accompanied her to Brest, where two other vessels came alongside with guns, ammu nition, money, &c. ; these were transferred to the Japan, Jones superintending the operation. While so engaged Jones met witness near the engine house, and said to him it would be a good thing for him (Stanley) if he went in the Japan. Lieut. Maury was on board at first in plain clothes, but afterwards in the uniform of the Confederate navy. Maury said the name of the vessel was about to be changed, and that she was going to under another flag. She was then re christened the Georgia, and the Confederate flag was hoisted. Jones was standing close by Maury when this took place. Jones and Maury then said that any man joining the ship would receive £lO bounty, and £4 lOs per month wages, Witness with the other men then went into the cabin, where he was paid £lO by the purser. He gave the money to Jones to transfer to his wife on his return to Liver pool. Jones also promised to pay half his (Stanley's) wages to his wife while he was absent. Witness then proceeded is the Georgia on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, then returned in her to Brest, and, having there obtained a day's leave, made the best of his way to Liverpool. On his arri val at that port he went to Jones and Co.'s office to ask for money, as he was then hard up, but they refused to give him any, remarking that some of the crew had deserted the ship. Other witnesses were examined, and gave evidence which went to show that Jones and also Wilding had dealt in ad vance notes for the crew of the steamer. The defendants were both committed for trial, but were admitted to bail, Jones himself in £5OO, and two sureties of £5O each; Wilding in £5O, and two sureties of £25 each. Elopement and Charge of Robbery. At the Salisbury Police -court, on Monday, a young mar ried man, named James Stainton, a clerk in the employ of the South-Western Railway Company, was charged with having feloniously stolen £5O, the property of Mr. Charles William Harris, landlord of the London Inn, Salisbury. Mr. Whatman prosecuted, and Mr. Wilson defended tbe prisoner, who was formerly the superintendent of the Dinton station of the South Western Railway Company, but about six months since he was transferred to Salisbury, where he has acted as booking-clerk. During the past three weeks he has been appointed parcel-clerk at the Salisbury station. During his 'visits to the prosecutor's house an in timacy sprang up between the prisoner and Mrs. Harris, which resulted in thepresent charge. Mr. W. Harris gave evidence to the effect that on the 20th inst. his wife suddenly and unexpectedly left home, and that the prisoner, who was at his house when he dis covered the fact, expressed considerable sorry at the affair, and pretended to use his best efforts to discover where Mrs. Harris had gone to. He subsequently missed a box con taining £5O or £6O, and had since received the following letters,one of which was intercepted, and others found upon the prisoner. The letter found upon the prisoner was as follows. It was directed to " Mr. J. Stainton, Salisbury Railway Sta tion, Salisbury" : "A. W. Z.—To be left at the Post-office, Islington, till called for. "Here I am, my darling, almost afraid to write to you, in case you may be watched very closely. Write by return; save the London post in the morning. lam so anxious to hear from you. lam very comfortable, but shall get into fresh quarters in a day or so. I cannot give you any parti culars. lam so—so nervous. My idea is to write to a friend of mine, an Indian colonel, and get information about my going to India ; what do you think ? I would rather be oft at once. Send the traps to the Greenwich Station till called for, to Mrs. (not Miss) Wilson. I will run down there on Saturday. lam not sufficiently composed to write a lengthy letter. Good bye, God bless you.: Do you under stand to address your letter as above, that is —A. W. Z., &c. God bless you. I have just been to Highbury to have a look at your place. The house immediately before the en trance to the yard has every blind drawn down ; it gave me such a turn, although I do no t know it to be y our fa ther's. Do not fail to write, my own loved one," The intercepted letter was a ddressed to Mr. Ja mes Stain ton, Clerk, S. W. Railway, Salisbury, Wilts, S a li s b ury post mark, Jan. 22c1, 1864, and was as follows : "Here's a pretty pickle. I went just now to the P. 0. at Islington. Informed all letters so addressed were detained at General P. Office. 'Went there, and further informed no letters with initials taken in, but opened and forwarded as dead letter to writer. lam hot and cold, and I hope you did not put any name; then you will take no further trouble about it. I will run down to Greenwich to-morrow in case you may have sent on the parcel, Write to me immediately you get this, my darling, or I shall go out of my mind. If you do not, I cannot gat a letter from you till Monday. I shall therefore look out to-morrow after noon . Di rec t Miss Wilson, Thompson's Family H London, N. I shall remain here o a te f l e , w lo d , a P y e s n . t o f v y l o e r o d a : d , it desirable for me to change quarters because of any fresh turn up, write a message and send some lad in the tele graph-office. Say Change and write ;' and if you think it desirable for me to change, not write, say Change and Pedro.' I will then advertise in the Daily Teleyrop4 to Pedro. I can do nothing, my love, until I year from you. I hope all's well. I went to inquire about a passage in the Duleep Singh—ao—stiffish I Tell' me, can I write unre servedly to you without fear ? Good bye, write my eternal love. God bless you." Superintendent Daidow proved taking the prisoner into custody on Friday upon the charge of aiding, abetting, and receiving from Mrs. Harris money and wearing apparel be longing to her husband. He replied, "I did not; nor have I anything belonging to either Mr. or Mrs. Harris." In a desk in the prisoner's office there was a parcel, and I asked the prisoner to whom it belonged, and ho replied "It is my parcel; I have got to pay 7d. for it." Tho par cel was directed to Mrs. Wilson, Waterloo Station. There SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TlMES.—After a silence of two months Mr. Bright has at length accepted the challenge which during all his long and angry correspondence with this journal Mr. Cobden most carefully eluded—the challenge to state what those measures were, not to be passed in our present Parliament, but which would be passed under a Parliament democratically elected, the effect of which would be to abolish feu dalism and redeem the agricultural labourer from his present poverty and serfdom. We denied that any such measure could be pointed out, or that there was the slightest reason to suppose that the present Parliament would be ill disposed to enter tain it if it could be discovered. Mr. Bright has undertaken to do what his champion, Mr. Cobden, did not venture to attempt, end we beg especial attention to the manner in which he has acquitted himself of his undertaking. We dismiss as irrele vant, distasteful to ourselves, and wearisome to the public, the personalities with which these chem. pions of freedom have thought fit to encumber a question in itself neither unimportant nor uninte resting. It matters very little to any one except himself in what society the Editor of this journal moves, or where he spends the hours of relaxation which Mr. Bright devotes to the smoking-room of the House of Commons or the billiard-room of the Reform Club. It will be time enough to accuse any gentleman interested in the Times of seeking for a peerage when it can be shown that he has ever striven to push himself into a position beyond that which naturally befogs to him, when he can be shown to have sought any favour at the hands of the Government, or when the public is ready to assume., as Mr. Bright does, that a connection with the Press is a virtual disqualification for any office or any honour for which a person may otherwise be fit. To appeal for proof of groundless asser tions to " the gossip of the Clubs" is a shabby artifice, and to say that au iotellig.noo which comes into hostile collision with his own is " godless intellect and practical atheism" i s to employ a weapon which in these days the most grovelling fanatics ,scarcely condescend to use. The existence of a Deity rule on evidence differing both in kind and in degree from I ,!tat dis torted political economy for which Mr. Bright seems to claim something like a special revelation to him self, and impossible as it may seem to Mr. Bright, people can be found who believe in God but have not the slightest belief in him. The Times is public property, its essence is notoriety, it will be judged by its advised utterances as daily put forth, and not by the gossip of elubs or second-hand tattle about political or fashionable society. What, then, is that law which Mr. Bright thinks could be carried in a more democratic Parliament, and cannot be carried in the present Parliament, which would redeem the agricultural labourer from his present poverty and degradation? Of course by making the change depend on a change in the electoral franchise Mr. Bright excludes the notion of force or outrage, and implies that everything would be done by consti tuted authority. It is ridiculous, therefore, to charge us with inconsistency for denying that whioh we never asserted. We have said, and we say it again, that we know of no law which could distribute the lands of the rich among the poor which did not make the alienation compulsory and the distribu tion gratuitous; the alienation compulsory because the rich will not voluntarily part with their land, and the distribution gratuitous because the poor have no money with which to buy it. We gave Mr. Bright oredit—though it seems we ought not to have done so—for really meaning what be said. We did not at that time believe that he WIS capable of re presenting the poverty and misery of a million and a half of his fellow-subjects as removable by an act of legislation, without having formed to himself the least idea of any measure adequate to effect such a result. Mr. Bright repudiates as inadequate the proposal for a Union settlement, and for abolishing criminal liabilities for breaches of contract to labour, So, of course, they are. Here, then, is his remedy. He proposes that in case of intestacy landed pro perty should go among the next of kin instead of to the eldest son, and he proposes that no devise of land shall be made to any unborn person. That is all, absolutely all, and these pro visions, Me, Bright has the face to tell us, would remedy the present poverty, serfdom, and degrada tion of the agricultural labourer and enable him to become a farmer. Surely never did such enormous promises end in a conclusion so contemptible ? It is just as if Mr. Bright were to undertake to make a ploughman live as well as an alderman by , taking off the duties on claret and champagne. We will not discuss the policy of these measures. They may be good or bad as matters of Law Reform, but we will submit to Mr. Bright a few questions which we trust he will answer in his speech this evening : If these measures would have this immense effect in improving the condition of the agricultural la bourer, why has Mr. Bright never proposed them before ? Why has he not given the present Parlia ment the opportunity of pronouncing an opinion upon them ? Why has he not communicated to the world the secret of their connection with the wel fare of the poor, which is known, apparently, to himself alone ? and why, in the name of truth and justice, does he revile the present Parliament for not passing measures which have never been brought before it, and call upon us to make a political revo lution in order to obtain a Legislature to do that which our present Legislature has not refused to do ? Mr. Bright anticipates that he will be told his measures would be inoperative, because few men die without a will. This only shows how much superficiality may be concealed under how much arrogance. Mr. Bright, apparently, does not know that the great mass of lande d property in England does not pass by will at all, but by settlements exe cuted on the marriage of the eldest son. We would next like to ask how the abolition of devises to un born persons, or the devolution of land to the next of kin under a contingency which very seldom takes place, will help the poor to the acquisition of land, either as tenants or freeholders. Will these laws make the proprietor willing to cut -up his estate into small holdings ? Will they give the labourer, such as Mr. Bright describes him, the power to pur chase ? Will they give him the means of affording that most expensive of all luxuries in this country, an investment in land ? Will they give him capital to buy stock ? Will they give him skill and know ledge to make the best of his property ? Will they enable him to compete with a large capitalist? Will they enable him to resist the temptation to sell to a rich neighbour at a price which will double his income, and leave him free to earn wages besides? And, above all, will any change in the law of suc cession to landed property give the poor man the industry, the temperance, the self-denial, and eco nomy to which alone the poor can look for advance ment in life? Will any law put England, where land is the most highly-prized of all possessions, on a level with America or Australia, where it is a drug ? Mr. Bright speaks of the intricacies of title and the difficulties of conveyancing. He appears to think that these things exist for the benefit of the rich, on whose estates they are a heavy burden, and that the landowners are in a conspiracy to keep them up in order to prevent themselves from selling their own land, should they feel inclined to do so. So i it t . le is Mr. Bright acquainted with this subject, s o entirely i t - :!is he confined his attention to that part of it which may serve to breed discontent and ill-will between the poor ' and the rich, that he does not seem to be aware thee the very Parlia ment which he reviles has taken a measure of unexampled boldness in order to Xer.'ilitate the sale and transfer of land. Observing the e:: treme simplicity of the title to funded stock, the pre sent Parliament has invented an elaborate ma chinery at great public expense for extending the same facility of transfer to land, so far as the differ ence between land and money allows the thing to be done, and any landowner who chooses to submit his title for investigation may henceforth convey his land to a purchaser with the most perfect ease and security. That more may be done in the same direction cannot be doubted. The question is not as to the propriety of simplifying title, but as to the means of doing it. It is a business of close thought and painstaking investigation, scientific rather than political, to be settled, not by great orators bawling on platforms, but by learned and laborious men in quiet chambers. We have in this whole transaction a very good illustration of the way in which, notwithstanding much oratorical ability and considerable public services, Mr. Bright has contrived to dispose of what might have been a great political reputation. He begins by reproach ing the laws of the country, without giving himself the trouble to ascertain what those laws really are, with the poverty of a portion of the population. Challenged to specify the remedy to which he points, he takes two months for consideration, and then propounds one so ridiculously inadequate as to prove that it is an after-thought invented to meet the case ; and yet, with all this time to get it up, he cannot avoid showing how very little knowledge he has of the grounds on which he presumes to censure the Legislature of which he is a member. If the affairs of a nation could be put to rights by personal abuse or vague declamation, Mr. Bright would long ago have extirpated every evil under the sun. It is because their remedy requires care, patience, and application that these groundless invectives have recoiled on their authors, and that while seeking to discredit the institutions of their country they have damaged nobody but themselves. DAILY NEWS.—The ultimate fate of Townley is'' still undetermined. Sir George Grey has publicly declared that the unfortunate man has been respited by being removed to Bedlam, but that his sentence has not been commuted. Under the Act of Parlia ment which has been called into operation, Sir G. ,:ey has power upon the certificate of two medical men to remove Townley back to pe s o. In an ordinary case this course would not be follow,2d, for it seems to be a standing rule that after sentence of death is once delayed it is never carried into exe eution. But the circumstances of Townley's case are so peculiar that it is just possible Sir George Grey might feel himself justified in making it an exception to the ordinary rule. At the same time the tenderness for human life is a feeling so natural that it will surprise no one if Townley escapes the doom which he certainly deserves. But whatever be Townley's fate, it is of vital importance to the public to ascertain upon whom the blame rests for this miscarriage of justice. The manifestation of feeling which took place on the occasion of Wright's execution proves clearly enough that the public are keenly alive to the manner in which the law in such cases is administered. Cespital punishment cannot continue to be inflicted, unless it be inflicted with strict impartiality. The poorer classes are deeply impressed by the contrast exhi bited between the fate of Wright and the fate of Townley. If there are people who believe Townley insane, there are quite as many, perhaps more, who believe that Wright was only guilty of man slaughter. Nor would it be easy to persuade most men that if Wright had had the assistance of influ ential friends and an astute attorney, he might not have produced an effect upon the Secretary of State. These considerations ought to make that Minister especially cautious; and even although under ordi nary circumstances Townley ought not to be con signed to the hands of the executioner, the conduct of Sir George Grey in the case of Wright may com pel him to adopt a different course. As in all serious cases, it is, of course, by no means easy to ascertain who is really responsible for the respite of Town ley. At the trial, Mr. Baron Martin, the presiding Judge, delivered himself to the jury in a manner which was evidently intended to ensure a convic tion, and the conviction was obtained. When he delivered his charge he seemed to entertain no doubt whatever of the guilt of the prisoner, and of his responsibility both at the time he committed the crime and at the time of the trial. So far, there fore, it would seem that the Judge was free from blame, and did his duty without flinching. Sir George Grey declares that he entertained no doubt of the sanity of the prisoner. He did undoubtedly reprieve him, but in so doing he insists that he o d e ; in strict conformity with the Act of Parliament which he could not disobey. The two certificates Wbiell were forwarded to him were in accordance witii the provisions of the statute, and in obeying it he merely' acted ministerially. All this seems clear enough, and the only conclusion would seem to be that the law must be altered, for the law only has been in fault. But, unfortunately, this is not the whole story. Baron Martin had scarcely delivered his vigorous charge to the jury who convicted Townley before he sat down to write a letter to the Home Secre tary, requesting him to make inquiry as to whether the prisoner was then sane. This, as it seems to us, was either a mistake or an act of weakness. It was a mistake if Baron Martin believed that the prisoner who stood before him was insane, because he had power himself to inquire into the state of the prisoner's mind. And even although the jury might have believed him to be sane at the time of the murder,the judge ought not to have pronounced sentence if he believed him insane at the time of his trial. To pronounce the solemn sentence of death, with such a conviction in the judge's mind, would have been an outrageous mockery. It was an act of weakness if the judge, having doubts as to the sanity of the prisoner before him, but thinking - that no such doubts existed in the minds of the jury, withdrew this question from the legitimate tribunal, and threw the responsibility of the execution upon the Home Secretary or his medical advisers. If the judge at the time of the trial entertained the same doubts which be entertained a few hours later, he ought to have stated them boldly to the jury, and not reserved them for a letter to the Secretary of State. It is impossible for the Home Secretary to 'ignore the suggestion of a judge who tries a pri soner. If Mr. Justice Blackburn had displayed less firmness than he did display in the case of Wright, that criminal might have escaped the penalty of death, If Baron Martin had displayed more firm ness or more openness of conduct he would have maintained better the dignity of the Bench. It was certainly quite right that Sir George Grey should direct an inquiry into the sanity of Townley; and if the result of that inquiry had been that in the opinion of those appointed to make it Townley was insane, Sir George Grey would have been justified in acting upon their certificate. But a very different course was pursued. At the very moment when the Lunacy Commissioners were conducting their inquiry at the instigation of the Home-office, other persons were conducting a similar inquiry on their own account. At the very moment when Sir George Grey was told by these self-appointed inquirers, that . Townley was insane, he was told by his own nominees that Townley was responsible for his actions, ann ought to suffer death. Under such circumstances whO would any reasonable man do ? Believing, as he did himself, that the insanity of Townley was a fic tion—believing, as he must, that the opinion of the Lunacy Commissioners deserved great weight, and that even if the Derbyshire certificate were acted upon it might be overruled by the Commissioners, what was his duty ? Ought not Sir George Grey to have paused ? Ought he not to have made in quiry ? Ought he not at least to have ascertained that the magistrates and medical men who signed the certificate were acting bona fide, or acting at all events with full knowledge of the consequences of putting their names to such a document ? It was well known to many that strong opinions were en tertained in some quarters that Townley was lease©, and surely Sir George Grey has had experience enough in the Home Office to know that those who desire the abolition of capital punishment use every case as a lever to promote the object they have in view. That Sir George Grey believed in the necese city of inquiring into the history of such certificates is plain, for in this very case he has ceded upon the magistrates who signed it to explain their conduct. The pity is that this step was not taken earlier. If it had been it is possible that Sir George Grey might have felt some diffie 1 u !y• in acting upon it. ft can scarcely be literally true that under the statute any certificate, provided it be signed by any two magistrates and any two physicians or surgeons, must be obeyed by the Home Secre tary. Those who sign it must surely understand what they are about. But Mr. W. Hugh Scott, one of the magistrates who did sign, distinctly says that although he thought Townley insane, "he was unaware of the effect" of the certificate "es regarded" the Home Secretary. At all events, it, seems tolerably clear that if, upon inquiry, the Home Secretary believes that those who signed the certificate are either closely connected with the prisoner, or have expressed a strong opinion in his favour, he would be awply justified in practically disregarding it—more it—more especially if in the opiniont. e of . himself and of the Lunacy Commissioners 4... prisoner appeared perfectly sane. It is raSt utiula f b ortunate, therefore, that Sir George Grel.sbi°,oo ave neglected so long to elicit those rep:le o der w .s hich he acted. If he had done so the magistrate; who signed the certificate un.,.r I , h that Townley would never errors repr,,,ce been us it seems that two grave at lea that committed in this business. The first is tu% the judge displayed weakness or inconsistenclott; both; b the second is that Sir George Grey w as ill asty in acting upon the certificate. The s.e .t to bad,and ought to be amended. But Plea , 1 i nen Parliament may, it requires to la eFulied by e . 1 of firmness and discretion. _........., the probabTei. STATE OF TRADE, ---40- -- ora ot MANCHESTER, Jan. 26.—N0 business of a l l °l o on; has been effected to day in the yarn-raarket, b at e m l) - T oe are tolerably firm, and do not evince any des ire - f° i 0 sales. The demand for all markets, home and foreigilite, alike without animation. Where there has been all d ' r to sition to business the tendency of prices has been ill f a r v p of buyers. In borne trade yarns manufacturers fe shown less disposition than ever to effect purchaes. spiYeo n th e e rs are quoting last week's prices, but so great hae_lo, discouragement from buyers that it is said maaciho ners are returning home with the resolution to s ".„, r •thtbe i mills e less time than they are now doing, and 5003°1-041 ofn don of stopping their machinery altogether. TJP.Aaot and 10,000 extra applicants for relief to boards a 8 11 . 1 ;ir local relief boards were reported on the 9th /Oa t ' 1 4 cle sequencein. n of mills closing. A still larger addition viaer'op, iw the week ending on the 18th, and there is ave r lf Wo rt b iAnu td.hyetahhaotrbtyapMaeoendoafyonneextmtohnethhanwidus btehrowo out °,,,, nag' 35,0 00 t° V it ;osi oi yet the crisis does not appear to have reached ita ° so ps y or nt. The cloth market to-day is quite as 400°0 go, and more looms as well as more spiaal,es.,,„or ken y o a f rn as s, likely to be stopped as the result of to-cav ' c iott rience mark of the market. Things are not Worse in ili c e ol be isen et than they were last Tuesday; indeed, it ° A DO' d b lt to conceive them worse. From Calcutta an" 11 ay the last letters to hand read Ter discourogitt sid/ the monetary difficulties increasing an y d some Dalin ;fore them concertnhosa)vtheinomatehadmeebaharzkaaveataerm.arWoestrailth such sen °4) ; ofea ll and tom n i t e h e s those s i e pp they er few aw too - 0 with consideration. The proyakispbe:ect!loaft dPrieffer.csalti°l3oo6l at home and the fears arising out of olitical corall_s. on the continent have also a tendency to restrict bl it fsit LEEDS, 26th.—For a Tuesday's market, the re , °(4 s fi r / amount of business done in the cloth-halls to-dar mi t:so . goods, both plain and fancy, were in moderate rein oil' the eat aggregate bulk of those and ordinary fabeas gold ed that there is a slight improvement in the e! are woollen fi trade of the town. Prices of both vir° °l ,: lifl ie l r,, adTa,heasflawxeturadaesisosftetandeyr,aawndmlaatteariP.4""; °IP: and threads, tained. NoTTINGHAM, 26th.—The warlike news fre ni had a very depressing effect upon bosil lesli a jtifi efe: giy 01 7: 0 , 0 Change hall to-day. Lace yarns met an W e 'i s io Ow sale, 6:ld in some cases holders were willing t ° „tee I lefi ,„ 6 less money7in most instances, however, littlelate- ciewth°' made. In hasiery yarns there was also 01• go al and de prices were uncLinged. No alteration ill,400" anmd,ainfdanbyeitnhginqgu,ipert.ieeFaowr ebrreoit7anfietrros t . he doli llillu ....t 9 141 ROCHDALE, 25th.—The flannel Market hoe 1/ 107 Pll'ill active to-day. Purchasers bought epor iD g il ° veil i ll $: 0 1 and fancy goods, being in some measure llee%fittaf; operations by the prices demanded by the 0 31/11 7 Ole Pi ll who are seeking some advance in consequence: ill n i t v ; r price of the raw material. Yorkshire WO° were b il lail dealers wore The wool trade was rather 1114.0 fi priee r s s were very firm in their demands, at falli COUNTRY ,e 0 MONMOUTH--TvEsDAY. 0 e nd 1° ,10; 0 0 Rather mild weather has again. set ' n ' a tioas 7;0 , E s are able to proceed with agricultura l opalerowitell terruption. The attendance at the d tiP" ~, moderate, with an average business, and ~zatsPnio dency in prices. 30.Vdte Wheat, white 5s Od to 5s Od I 8ar109.• '' '' Ditto red .0s Od toOs Od Oats •"' The followingKELT w O e N re AtlhOellrcurßßreAncYje--8 :T__llll;:Ter I l eO f 10/131q6 o%* 43s Od to 45s C1c1; new red, 408 Od to 430 peA beans 36s to 38s, for old ; new rts 33s to 3 ' 19- 't ff • P' to 3 °l. P barley, r 34s:to 36sdfor malting , and 28s f ,o l 2 ting; new oats, lbs„ to 22s Od per 2 4 s t°ll A le, of O l g 18 dance • At this day's malirklietLthi7TehirA.l.. a ll 17 41 51; p rattler short, and in some instances is P" ..l T t her . .:;,ir i 'd• last week's rates was given. Foreign. o ltins Barney for grinding in fair demand, 1) 1 .± . t . : d difOow - , 40 0 0 a tions quite neglected, Oats were firm 61. ' ° atop 0 04 Beans sold bettor, i.e., peas very dull. ... 428 ot it B o Wheat Old white.... per ....... • 40 0 0 4 to d o ",1 Old red...... f .......... 4 10 oa 10 50 'l4 New white .. ...... 57 0 t ° 00 A New red .• . • // ...... 21 8 o a 0 0 Barley English malting ............ 240 to 3 10 Grinding .................. 320 , 5 _O O4 Saal and Oderbruck ........ Ocri!; t 1 Holstein and Danish ........ QBO a Oats G E r n i g n li d s in h" . old . ............................ ...... .. 0 2 ,:pt ‘4 11:0 1 00 45 1 Archangel and Riga, per a'• 03 1 " to g .p is Friesland and Dutch ........ oolk to „ Swedish and Danish ........ 4 00 0, to o°, Beans English, old, per qr ......... 4 9, 0 o a a 4 5 Oil New pigeon ................ 40 0 N Od ew tick. .................. 308 at e E g yptian .......... . 32 0 ' 6 's `PO 5 Peas .. Foreign boilers ........... 320 o d to # Grinding ................ ,s a to Tares .... Spiing ....................... 330 to or , Indian Corn ...................... 62.9 0 t o• 5 0 Linseed, feeding ....................... 40s to P 9 0 0 crushing ............. ... 00 to OO 0 Linseed cakes (Hull) ............ t ,1 4 Rape cakes ....°, 6 1(1 ............ ........................ 6 6 10 : vfl , Bones Ill` 4 t 1( , r° LYNN—TuEsDAY• iv o f arbee'el;' Sotof At to-day's market there was a fair of j ot 0 " sii01 0 met an inactive sale, and the prices ~'"b ou tPr 0 3 0 unchanged. Oats and other articles 3t " .34 0 0 rencies. ...*" 30s i° ;1 0 White Itcd.. 39s to 41a 1 Cirit' diTh '..•' '' ' A Beans .33s to 35s 1 Oats.. •• : 0 . , " New 35a to 37s I Fo s ''... ------ , i r , get. COAL Al..A.ftls-' t ale rti: tl , Prices of'Coal per Ten at tne 0100_,°°As P' ' 1r ''..- .1 5 0 s. d. • Buddle'sWest Hartley 15 0 tt 11.. ''" " .' i l g 9 9 Byass's Bebside West Heu,s l3 x '' . '' .• .. ' Hartley .'''• .."1 9 0 .•. . 15 0 ' slioeulltobe.lZ'lo.e..::, ... : : :1 1 - . ! 9 LlLambert's West Hart-' 14 9 Hartlepeo 0 .. .. 9 I Walker Primrose Cowpen Hartley 14 3 Riddell. '11,7,1'001•'',,.1,, 9 15 0 East liar' ifetten'' ~11, Hastings Hartley l5 0 BrolaY11•°TilorIllei., ..o b ° 0 Holywell 19 0 Trinrden; . ..... ~.,,,,, ti Wylam 17 6 Tunstal" . ~..".,..'-9 v West Wylam. Eden Main ,.• o . "0 0 West Hartley • '' •• 18 6 fletton ..•.'...,.. ~,,,, 15 0 Caradoc .wa..,..,,,,ru Tanfield Moor 15 6 South geL ...., ~ Caseq" v•tiellt/Q1"•• Walls End. Northfig Byron ship . 8 at market, 0211' 16, so ld. / A fi l ef / ------ ellt ell' Otor ~ oiiito ding, v [ADVERTISEMENT.)--HOHOWDY •i. eaten o ( 0, Instant Rescres which are claw te a 10.00 Di i s which are hourly deepening, maY b e arre l s ta i ' eti P liliirt'° turing progress, and induced to take he.% 0 03 0 ''' ° l3 o' [ plying this healing Ointment and takionitraets 000" Pills. It soothes all dieteinpers of, an d e l l e lees tio l l iolv humours from, the skin. Old ulcers of 3103_0 of p i o i( 0 and cr I' ti red e soe 1 0 tions caused by varicose veins 'd shortly oes .p. Act limbs, can sensibly be eased an ~, ro pres a ti o l o n, way's never failing Ointment, Whi n ' r oll ° - tr 0 0 ''.. and stimulates sluggish vascular and ne fig also t O O or constitutions breaking down under Pil,ettieas °, ioi similarly painful maladies, a few aPPll';.,istene / ing Ointment will give comfort, and a Pe' will effect a cure. _—______----------- ..----V A ..e' 0 Births.oolice Detro it, 0 0 G01LD01.7.-00. the 23d inst. at 10. 0 Guernsey, the wife of Lieutenant -Co e a daughter. the Cott 04' obi 60 1' LALAING.—On the 24i.J2 inst., at Brusoels' - '' e cro t io , Lalaing, of a daughter. w ife 01, tti c, LOCKWOOD.—On the 27th just., the od I, 01 wood, E:q., of 16, HighlAtry -lace, 'II „, Pt hall-court, of a daughter. YOUNG. —On the 26th inst., at DnlWiclrere'r° Young, of a son. Cr Marriages. At, ito' ipot f 5:30, j': , BATTISCOMBE—BRANFILL —On toe '2 (411 f too l'i' ve,.a , °,,,, 1P ) niinster, Walter E. S. Ba.ttiscouibe, ,-- -i tx clif gin:lent, to Agnes J. Branfill, datlghter o , 0 4 ,1 , Brantill ` c ' Esq., of Uptninster flail. I. at P4rl°.4 i‘if. 11ILTON-loDn.--On. the 26tb int. a. - Q ,, pa/ I o p ' Oundle, Northamptoshire, eor,o'lloacviltor r , 0 otit., ton, of London, solicitor, to Isaboll , Richard Todd, of Oundle. # 1 ( I, Deaths. t o g viobor pp° EVANSO the gaged nst., at 314, IVa r, , 15t e t , Richard Evans, 9l. ,:,4 of t1 i ,, e ,,, J'' GOSNELL. tho 26th inst., Anil, re"—volv-f pot' Gosnell, Esq., of 12, Thre.e Bing-court, ~f i vi, : •if aged Si. rr , -, 01 3 cel ° KINDEItsLEY.--On the 27th inst., a. 0 0313 ,to dens, Mary Anne, the wife of the Vier r,,tffi'ic; Richard 'l'. Eindersley, aged 67. 4, noofell% CC MEREDYTI-1.---011 the 25th inst., 0. , _, viNioroclit ' p Gro,venor-square, the DOWittOr PWI That. 40' of the late Sir Joshua Collis Meredytl39 '0 e4O 0, SEABROOK.—On the 25th ins t., at Drigla ' _. f9t l Seabrook, Erg., aged 6'2. j, pCiPalb• VBR. k v hi illiSTl,l4, OgV,,, tOn, J —OnJames v ioart, .....sq , Commanilor ,-.". ___::. o s ',, i '1)1.,,,));1 ---------- _—_---:,---., A e I'l' Louden : PrlnZed and ruNislied by 1)P,,,,r4 00Ce0110 of No. 112, Strand, Prillter, at TO:, 1006 St ra nd, in the rreCilite J o f die 3itir let3l, liiitidleEex --Thursday, a utory a,